Fox News has signed a prominent former Trump Administration official.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has signed on with Fox News Media as a paid contributor, as the network continues to snap up prominent figures from the Trump administration and the former president’s own family.
Pompeo, who in addition to serving as the nation’s top diplomat also served as CIA Director and as a Republican House member from Kansas, is a potential presidential candidate in 2024.
Pompeo managed to avoid clashes with Trump that emerged between the president and other top members of his security team, although he experienced his own forms of blowback. He had to nix his last planned trip to Europe days before leaving office after Luxembourg’s foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him in the wake of the Capitol riot.
Shortly after leaving office, he landed a spot as a ‘distinguished fellow’ at the conservative Hudson Institute.
The potential presidential candidate later this week is scheduled to attend the ‘Save America’ fundraising event at Trump’s Doral golf club in Florida.
Fox has a long history of providing a platform and compensation to top Republican officials biding their time between Republican administrations. A handful of 2016 contenders had held on-air gigs at the network, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee had his own show and was a contributor.
Also moving to Fox was former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who co-anchors the network’s ‘Outnumbered’ program, where her first appearance aired this week.
McEnany’s final financial disclosure form revealed that she had an agreement with Fox, although the company on January 6th released a statement saying McEnany ‘is not currently an employee or contributor at FOX News.’
Lara Trump, the wife of Trump son and Trump Organization exec Eric Trump, signed her own contributor deal with the network. During the campaign, she regularly warmed up Trump rallies with attacks on Joe Biden and the Democrats.
If Pompeo were decide to run for president, his agreement with the network would be terminated, as happened when Fox contributor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former Trump White House press secretary, decided to run for governor of Arkansas.
This is an excerpt from The Daily Mail.
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